Lynne Wagenknecht, DrPH 

Lynne E. Wagenknecht, DrPH, Vice Dean for Population Health, and Professor and Director of Public Health Sciences, provides strategic direction and oversight across all population health research at Advocate Health. She is a chronic disease epidemiologist with an extensive research portfolio in the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity. She is Principal Investigator and Steering Committee Chair of the NIH-funded ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities) Study. Dr. Wagenknecht is an Associate Director in the Wake Forest Clinical & Translational Science Institute funded through NCATS.  Her publications number nearly 400. She has served as an Associate Editor of Diabetes and as Chair of the NIH Kidney Nutrition Obesity & Diabetes (KNOD) Study Section.  Dr. Wagenknecht received her doctoral degree from the University of Alabama School of Public Health, and a fellowship in the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women.